Microsoft's charts feature allows you to quickly turn data into a visual representation. You can choose from a variety of different style charts and graphs and then provide a spreadsheet for you to enter, or paste, the data into that you want it to represent. The color, axis, text, and other aspects of the charts and graphs are highly customizable.
- [Narrator] In the previous video,…we took a look at SmartArt inside of Microsoft Word,…and how we can use it to create images or illustrations…to help students learn.…In this video, I want to take a look at the Charts feature,…which allows you to take data,…and turn it into an illustration, a chart, or a graph,…again, to help improve understanding…and retention of a concept.…Now on this document is one of my favorite statistics…about communication.…It's a fact that I found in a great book by Eric Palmer,…titled Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking.…Now it seems like in schools,…we teach a lot of writing and reading.…
However, they only make up 9% and 16%…of the time that we spend communicating.…How much time do we really spend teaching students to speak,…or especially, listen?…In my opinion, just showing these numbers…isn't very impactful though.…I want to take this information…and put it into a more powerful visual representation.…So what I'm going to do is first make sure that my cursor…is where I would like this illustration to be.…
Author
Oliver Schinkten
Released
12/5/2018- Overview of Microsoft Office 365 for educators
- Creating effective and engaging presentations in PowerPoint
- Recording presentations for flipped classes
- Creating tutorials and flipped classes with Sway
- Tracking student progress with Excel
- Creating visual representations of data in Word
- Sharing resources with OneDrive
- Creating class notebooks with OneNote
- Communicating and collaborating with Microsoft Teams
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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1. Overview of Microsoft Office
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Microsoft Office Online2m 36s
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2. Microsoft PowerPoint for Educators
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Effective presentations3m 9s
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Engaging presentations2m 52s
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Link actions6m 10s
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3. Sway for Educators
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What is a Sway?5m 39s
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4. Microsoft Excel for Educators
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Track student progress7m 25s
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Filtering results2m 39s
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5. Microsoft Word for Educators
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Use Word templates1m 46s
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6. One Drive for Educators
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7. One Note for Educators
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OneNote Class Notebooks7m 59s
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OneNote Web Clipper2m 59s
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8. Microsoft Teams
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Create a new class4m 44s
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Create assignments5m 14s
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 54s
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